Comments on: Annotated 46-6

By: Zak McKracken

Zak McKracken — Wed, 29 Jun 2022 16:39:50 +0000

Yeah, with these cleric types, it’s always a bit difficult to tell which part of their special abilities is a properly controlled ability they can yield (which was granted to them by their respective deities) , and which part is their deity responding to a request for help.

I usually assume it’s the former, because some god doesn’t have time to run about and work wonders anytime someone wants to light a campfire in a more convenient way. In this case, though, my impression was that Magda was not in a position to directly control the rock as she did e.g. in the last big battle. She was dangling upside down from an airship and was just praying to Tectonicus to please help.

…at least that’s the interpretation that seems to make most sense to me right now. And it would make sense because that would mean Tectonicus didn’t just *not* revoke Magda’s powers, he actively supported “his” people.

By: Zak McKracken

Zak McKracken — Wed, 29 Jun 2022 16:32:04 +0000

I didn’t try to work those details out the first or second time I read the story. This time round I tried to and took a while to work things out.
…but the story doesn’t gain too much from it, or loose anything if you don’t do it, so I consider this sort of thing a bonus. I’m pretty sure that nobody *expected* a significant portion of readers to decipher everything, but I think it’s nice they went to that level of detail. If there were just some generic figures in vaguely dangerous positions *someone* would take the time to go through and point out that some inconsequential detail or another wasn’t consistent.
Instead, John (potentially following a request from Flo or T) went and made it all consistent, while giving those hardcore readers something to chew on. I like that, even if I’m not one of the people who tries to decipher and interpret that kind of thing.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 29 Jun 2022 10:01:03 +0000

The fact that we have discussion on this just serves to illustrate my point. It’s definitely Frigg who catches Gravedust, since Magda’s hair is braided. Harky/Penk mix-up is my mistake.

By: BM03

BM03 — Wed, 29 Jun 2022 02:40:41 +0000

I thought she meant that that because she asked Tectonicus to do his will and he answered. Implying that if he didn’t agree with this union he’d let them get fugged.

Which was also a discussion around the winter elves’ story.

By: Kamino Neko

Kamino Neko — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 23:57:24 +0000

Penk’s skepticism (which totally came through for me) aside, Magda does have a point, here – she just successfully channeled Tectonicus’ power to aid them. Not a super-glowing endorsement of the alliance, but at least it’s a sign that Tecty’s OK with it enough not to take away the power to punish the blasphemy.